Monday, May 30, 2016

Managing digital forensic lab

For last few weeks I found myself in awkward situation, almost like echo from some previous jobs,
preparing materials for training titled "Managing digital forensic laboratory".  This is almost accidental event, a first run of that training since we announced it few years ago.
The story behind course is strange by itself too, It all started as result of a failure. There was one nice big project about setting up digital forensic lab, for dual purpose forensics and education. Huge effort was put into project, especially in preparation for managing lab materials and intro course for that. Since project didn't realise we did logical move, reused prepared materials, and squeezed into 3 day trainng expandable to 5 days.  Basic theory  is based on excellent "Building a Digital Forensic.Laboratory: Establishing and Managing a Successful Facility"book by Andrew Jones and Craig Valli. I've decided to add additional things based of recent development for datacenters and open source tools for compatibility and certification based on "Sarbanes-Oxley IT Compliance Using Open Source Tools, 2nd Edition" where we can show how to inexpensively build a managing and control infrastructure even on knoppix.  For lab case management I've decided to implement Foreman tool  and mention comparation with other case management tools like FTK lab.
To cover datacenter approach and introduce good practice in managing a lot of computing power, what is always missing  I've decided to use "Enterprise Data Center Design and Methodology"
By: Rob Snevely. There is a lot of other papers and web resources to mention and talk about ...

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